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YOUNG v. LANE

Nos. 89-3382, 89-3489.

922 F.2d 370 (1991)

John Wesley YOUNG, III, Laurence Mack, Martin D. Kracht, Calvin S. Carter, Francis A. McKenna, and John Phillips, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Michael P. LANE, Director, Department of Corrections, State of Illinois, Leo L. Meyers, Assistant Director/Adult Division, Department of Corrections, State of Illinois, Linda A. Giesen, Warden, Dixon Correctional Center, Larry E. Sachs, Assistant Warden/Programs, Dixon Correctional Center, Richard B. Gramley, Warden, Dixon Correctional Center, and William O'Sullivan, Assistant Warden/Operations, Dixon Correctional Center, in their official and individual capacities, Defendants-Appellants. John Wesley YOUNG, III, Laurence Mack, and Francis A. McKenna, Plaintiffs-Cross-Appellants, v. Michael P. LANE, Director, Department of Corrections, State of Illinois, Leo L. Meyers, Assistant Director/Adult Division, Department of Corrections, State of Illinois, Linda A. Giesen, Warden, Dixon Correctional Center, Larry E. Sachs, Assistant Warden/Programs, Dixon Correctional Center, Richard B. Gramley, Warden, Dixon Correctional Center, and William O'Sullivan, Assistant Warden/Operations, Dixon Correctional Center, in their official and individual capacities, Defendants-Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 7, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary Sternberg, Kurt Yahn, Andrew Schneiderman, Gershon Kulek, Sternberg & Associates, Chicago, Ill., Karl F. Winkler, Mary P. Gorman, O'Brien, Heeley, Wade & Gorman, Rockford, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees, plaintiffs-cross-appellants.

John Wesley Young, III, Mount Sterling, Ill., pro se.

Neil F. Hartigan, Atty. Gen., William D. Frazier, James P. Nally, Peter V. Bustamante, Asst. Attys. Gen., John A. Morrissey, Office of the Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants, defendants-cross-appellees.

Before WOOD, Jr., CUDAHY, and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Dixon Correctional Center ("Dixon"), a penal institution under the direction of the Illinois Department of Corrections, is a former mental hospital that was converted into a prison in October 1983. In May 1988, the time of trial in this action, Dixon was a medium-security prison housing 890 inmates. Of those 890 inmates, seven (less than one percent) were Jewish.1 This lawsuit addresses their right to exercise...

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